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Labour’s spokesperson for Rainbow Issues, Shanan Halbert, stands firm on puberty blocker access.
New Zealand has now had a year of the coalition government, and to mark the anniversary, we heard some deliberately misleading murmurs from ACT and Winston Peters about access to puberty blockers. This kind of rhetoric is...
Labour List MP Glen Bennett describes his love of living in provincial New Zealand, despite the additional challenges it can create for rainbow Kiwis.
Living in Taranaki, I get to experience the beauty and simplicity of provincial life every day. There’s something special about being surrounded by nature, with big...
Labour List MP Glen Bennett describes his love of living in provincial New Zealand, despite the additional challenges it can create for rainbow Kiwis.
Living in Taranaki, I get to experience the beauty and simplicity of provincial life every day. There’s something special about being surrounded by nature, with big...
Craig Young says 'With the New Zealand Labour Party, we don't know how lucky we are. Witness its performance on LGBTQI+ rights, compared to its British and Australian counterparts.'
Unfortunately, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has always been somewhat trailing its British and New Zealand counterparts when it comes to...
Shanan Halbert MP Spokesperson for Rainbow Issues reflects on World Pride Month.
Following Pride Month and Schools’ Pride Week, we’ve been reflecting on how Labour can best advocate for our Rainbow community, amid National’s reckless choices which are taking us backwards.
Labour has a proud track record of advancing equal rights....
When our government was passing legislation to ban conversion practices in Aotearoa, I heard gruelling stories about the discrimination many rangatahi faced growing up. I want to help change that.
Education empowers us to reach our full potential, so we must accelerate the work with schools and teachers to promote...
Yesterday the former Finance Minister and New Zealand's first openly-gay Deputy Prime Minister, Grant Robertson made his final valedictory speech in parliament. Read it in full below.
"When I arrived here in 2008, the Speaker was the Dr the Hon Lockwood Smith. We had a bit of history. He had...
Former Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has candidly discussed how his sexuality influenced his previous bids for the Labour Party leadership, recognising that his sexual orientation was an inhibiting factor in obtaining Party leadership.
In 2013 and again in 2014, Robertson competed for the leadership position but was unsuccessful. Reflecting...
